Jacobin

This July 9, the Trump administration targeted Francesca Albanese for sanctions. Executive Order 14203 listed the forty-eight-year-old UN special rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied by Israel as a “specially designated national,”...

In just over a year, the British right-wing political party Reform, led by Nigel Farage, a man who rose to prominence at the head of the campaign to push the UK out of the European...

In a spectacular act of cowardice and idiocy last night, seven Democratic Party senators and one independent voted to end the shutdown on Republicans’ terms, squandering their momentum and leverage. Bernie Sanders laid out the...

November 11, 2025, marks the fiftieth anniversary of Angola’s independence, ending more than five centuries of Portuguese domination. The independence struggle had been long and bloody, marked by outside intervention that turned Angola into a...

The end of Portuguese colonial rule in Angola fifty years ago was also the beginning of a Cuban military mission that had a major impact on the country’s history, beating back a South African invasion...

Ireland’s presidential election at the end of last month resulted in a decisive victory for the left-wing candidate Catherine Connolly. Connolly won more votes and received a bigger percentage than any previous candidate for the...

In response to the Trump administration’s public pressure campaign on the Federal Reserve, including the firing of Federal Reserve Board of Governors member Lisa Cook, many journalists, economists, and government officials have articulated strong defenses...

In the summer of 1920, Benjamin Schlesinger, president of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union (ILGWU), sailed for Europe and Soviet Russia. The ILGWU — then one of the six largest unions in the United...

Mention Sweden to the average American and an idyllic image of a society with high levels of education, low levels of inequality, and homes decorated with stylish mid-century furniture is likely to come to mind....

Alberto Espay was not prepared for how his world would be upended when he published a study on the number of people who have died while taking new, high-profile Alzheimer’s drugs. Last October, the neurology...

For all the self-assuredness that Diane Keaton, who sadly passed away earlier this month, brought to her on-screen performances, there always was a hint of restlessness about her. A wonderfully gifted, wide-ranging actress capable of...

Comparing the poet, painter, and master engraver William Blake to his contemporary William Wordsworth in a 1991 London Review of Books article, Jonathan Bate wrote that “Blake’s wildness was what shaggy men like Ginsberg needed...